Egypt
Monsters and Critics
And in Spanish here.
- Another Article Re Nefertiti And Repatriation
ABC News /Spiegel Online (Michael Sontheimer and Ulrike Knöfel) Comprehensive four-page overview of the case and its history. Germany and Egypt have long been at odds over the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti. Now documents found in archives...
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Ongoing Saga Of Nefertiti Bust
All Voices (Christopher Szabo) Demands by Egypt for the return of Queen Nefertiti’s bust to Cairo have been turned down by Germany. State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann argued the statue rightfully belonged to Germany. Neumann rejected Egyptian...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- Neues Museum To House Egyptology Collection In 2009
Bloomberg The British architect David Chipperfield is either blazing a restoration trail or sabotaging old buildings, depending on which Berliner you listen to. He is rebuilding a part of Germany's equivalent of the Louvre -- the war-damaged...
Egypt
1.2 million visitors admired Nefertiti in the last year
Monsters and Critics
The bust of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, whose ownership is a point of dispute between Germany and Egypt, has drawn some 1.2 million visitors since the Neues Museum where it is displayed re-opened last year, museum officials said Thursday.
The museum, on Berlin's UNESCO World Heritage Site-awarded Museum Island, was shut for 70 years after being badly damaged in World War II bombing, and will celebrate its first anniversary since re-opening on Saturday.
And in Spanish here.
- Another Article Re Nefertiti And Repatriation
ABC News /Spiegel Online (Michael Sontheimer and Ulrike Knöfel) Comprehensive four-page overview of the case and its history. Germany and Egypt have long been at odds over the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti. Now documents found in archives...
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Ongoing Saga Of Nefertiti Bust
All Voices (Christopher Szabo) Demands by Egypt for the return of Queen Nefertiti’s bust to Cairo have been turned down by Germany. State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann argued the statue rightfully belonged to Germany. Neumann rejected Egyptian...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- Neues Museum To House Egyptology Collection In 2009
Bloomberg The British architect David Chipperfield is either blazing a restoration trail or sabotaging old buildings, depending on which Berliner you listen to. He is rebuilding a part of Germany's equivalent of the Louvre -- the war-damaged...